Variety reports that although The Passion of the Christ is already the ninth highest grossing film of all-time, Newmarket Films hopes to attract a whole new audience who was once deterred from seeing the picture due to excessive violence.
The solution? Cut five to six minutes of the most violent scenes from the movie.
The Passion Recut will be released March 11 nationwide, with director Mel Gibson removing a chunk of the most controversial scene (the savage beating he received at the hands of the Romans).
The movie will be released unrated, although it was clear from the MPAA that the movie would still, nonetheless, receive an R rating.
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